Panaji Travel Blogs

The weather is really heating up here now and every day we wake up and pray that it'll be raining; but no the same old sticky sweat inducing weather. We were running low on money so decided to walk into town to use the cashpoint and discovered that our bank had stopped our cashpoint cards yet again…

The 13 hour or so long bus journey from Bangalore finished at Panaji bus stand somewhere around 8:30 in am. Me and Pravin asked around on where to get bikes, and took one of the local buses to get to Miramar beach. Across the road we found some guy who was renting mopeds. After some amount of barga…

So today we decided to go back to Panaji to fly out the next day to Kerala province. We got up really early and went to the beach (ok, there's not much to do at Anjuna, so...either you go to the beach or you have a drink...or you chat....or you read...:) ) for a swim and breakfast

It had to happen sometime and we're quite amazed it hadn't earlier - the tummy bug. Hil succumbed in Agra, but a day's rest and some Royal Free supplied antibiotic put her swiftly on the mend. In the circumstances, neither of us could face the 3 tier overnight train to Varanasi. We moved to plan B.…

  I wish you all the happiness and success in the world. Know that anything in life is possible, just believe in yourself. I believe in each of you and know all of you will grow up to be great men of India one day.   With love, Uncle Ruwan -Toronto, Canada   Those are the wor…

Perhaps it is a general rule in life that we are allotted a certain number of memorable events per day or per week say, but generally they occur so infrequently and in such small dosage that we think breifly on them and they generally pass into that realm-of-many-things: "the forgotten". Here in …

Following in the footsteps of Marco Polo by reliving the past of the Silk Roads from Syria to China, going upstream the mighty Mekong from Vietnam all the way to Tibet, see the roof of the world and more.....

No offence to the locals, but this place is a shitbox!!  We spent the day wondering around looking for something to do only to find there was nothing...   We weren't allowed to swim in the local outdoor pool unless we had a note from the doctor to say that we were free of H…